By Jo Schaffer, Officer for Retiees No, RIT does not refer to a college located in Rochester nor is it a mistaken set of initials for RIP or RPI another college further east! It refers to the common definition of a UUP active member as a RETIREE IN TRAINING. This is a term that comes from […]

By Jaclyn Pittsley, President – We all may be approaching the point of irredeemable exhaustion as we approach the end of a third semester, or one year, battling the exigencies of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have heard from many members over the last year regarding their concerns about students, their work, workload, performance programs, evaluations, […]

While UUP has not directly consulted with Management at the Chapter level in creating the SUNY Cortland Open Access Policy, we are gratified to learn they have accepted UUP’s position that any Open Access policy should exist entirely as an opt-in program, rather than an opt-out program; additionally, UUP appreciates that participation is not in […]